Passbook is a often under utilized feature of IOS. For those who haven’t used it, Passbook is a app that comes with all phones running IOS 6 and above. Passes can be mailed, shared, retrieved from a website or delivered…
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Amazon Cloudsearch With Ruby And Asari Moving Towards 1.0
When you need to offer advanced search in your Ruby based application you have a number of options. People often will look at using a Lucene based solution such as Solr or Elasticsearch. The only problem is that you will…
Posted in Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Active Asari, Amazon, Asari, Cloud Search, Ruby, Scaling, Search
Getting Started With Google Glass Development Using Ruby, the Mirror API and Heroku
While Google Glass is a Android device, you don’t need to be an Android developer to start to create apps for it. What is the Mirror API The Mirror API is a Google API based cloud service that hooks into…
Posted in Development, Glass, Mobile, rails, ruby, Wearables Tagged with: Active Record, Google Glass, Heroku, Rails, Ruby, Wearables
A Sane Oauth Federation Strategy With Doorkeeper in Ruby
There are a lot of articles out there about setting up one server with Doorkeeper to offer Oauth support in Ruby projects. But when you start to get into federating your Oauth credentials across services it turns into the wild…
Posted in Architecture, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Doorkeeper, Oauth, Rails, Ruby, Scaling, Security
HTTParty Cookies and Devise
So you are working in Ruby, you like to party, you like HTTP and you like cookies. For many ruby developers the HTTParty is a great way to make http calls from your ruby code to a web service. When…
Posted in Architecture, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Devise, HTTParty, Oauth, Rails, Ruby
Using OmniAuth to Authenticate for Doorkeeper
In Ruby, if you want to set up a Oauth provider the Doorkeeper Gem is a popular solution. We had a application where we wanted to provide our end users with a oauth interface for our main authentication/authorization, but delegate…
Posted in Architecture, Development, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Doorkeeper, Oauth, Omniauth, Scaling, Service Oriented Architecture
Automating Your SOA Ruby Development Environment Using Foreman and Bash
The Monolithic App When you have one monolithic ruby stack, getting a developers machine to run the stack for smoke testing etc. is really easy. If the application is just Rails based without any background jobs you simply start up…
Posted in Agile, Architecture, Database, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Agile, Architecture, bash, foreman, Rails, Ruby, Scaling
Rubyconf Taiwan 2014 Recap
Last month I had the honor of being able to speak at Rubyconf Taiwan with a talk about Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer. Rubyconf Taiwan is a two day, two track conference dedicated to all things Ruby that had…
Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer Slides are up!
Recently I gave a talk at Rubyconf Taiwan about Analytics in Ruby. Check out the slides below!
Posted in AngularJS, Database, Development, gems, Glass, Javascript, Mobile, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Analytics, D3JS, Data Science, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Ruby, Rubyconf Taiwan, S3
Writing a Non-Gemified Strategy for OmniAuth
The OmniAuth gem tends to be one of the go-to tools in a Ruby developer’s toolbox when you want to authenticate against multiple systems. It has been around for a long time and is very well-documented. When you want to…
Posted in Development, gems, rails, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Authentication, Gems, Omniauth, Ruby, Ruby Gems, Ruby on Rails, Security, Single Sign On, SSO